Chords for tori amos before they were stars

_ _ [B] Can you pick out the star in this kindergarten [Gb] class?
She didn't stand out in the crowd yet, but this little girl was born with some very special [G] talents.
Aside from being adorable, she had a bright future [A] ahead.
That is, after she escaped the watchful [Gb] eye of Jesus and ditched the name Myra Ellen.
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_ _ _ [E] Today, Tori [Dbm] Amos is definitely a free [Db] spirit, and she's [Abm] always been a hell raiser.
But [B] the Reverend and Mrs.
Amos prefer [E] to remember Myra [Dbm] Ellen as their little angel.
[Abm] My most _ impressionable [Bb] memory was right before she was two.
We went to her papa and nanny's, [Eb] and she was playing this little organ, and I still have
that in my mind.
The Reverend wasted no [F] time enrolling his five-year-old [Ab] prodigy in the prestigious [Bb] Peabody
Conservatory of Music, [Ebm] but she was more interested in Hendrix [Eb] than Handel, and when she was [Db] 11,
she was kicked out.
I'm still getting over that.
_ I don't think people realize when you're [Gb] a kid _ how [Eb] much that affects you.
[Ebm] You don't understand why [Eb] _ you're being rejected.
You just think that I'm 11 now, and I'm a disappointment.
[Cm] _ But the Reverend kept [Bm] the faith, and he was [Eb] determined to keep Tori in the [Am] biz, even if
it meant going [Ab] through the back [G] door.
We got a [D] job at [G] a gay bar [Cm] while Mother was away.
[Bm] But Tori was only 13, [G] and the bar insisted [Am] her parents come as [Ab] chaperones.
With [G] my clerical collar [Gb] on, no one was going to [G] make a pass at this [C] young lady at [Bm] the piano.
I [Bb] had never been [Am] in a bar [Ab] until [B] I accompanied her.
_ It wasn't long before Tori moved on without [E] her parents to hotel [B] lounge gigs, but she
was leading a double life.
By night, the [B] sultry femme fatale.
[E] By day, [B] the all-American girl, voted homecoming queen, best all around, and [E] choir flirt.
She even performed in [Bm] high school musicals.
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_ [Am] _ _ Here's Tori back in 1979 in the production of Gypsy, where she played [D] the lead role of a stripper.
[D] _ But it [Bb] took a little convincing.
Say, you're even younger than I was before I started [Fm] stripping.
Oh, I'm _ _ _ [N] _ _
not stripping.
[G] No, I'm _
_ [Bbm] just_
It didn't [Db] take long for Tori to [Eb] get over her fears.
In [Bbm] fact, she's always been up for a walk on the wild side.
Remember this image?
We're not sure if it's wrong, but it's definitely [G] not [Eb] kosher.
She enjoyed [Bbm] shocking her parents.
She still does.
And still does.
[A] If you want to talk shocking, [Eb] check this out.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ That's right, [Fm] it's shiny, happy [Cm] Tori [Eb] performing her first released single, Baltimore.
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ Not [C] exactly Grammy material, [Eb] but it did earn her a citation from the [F] mayor.
Hey, a break's [Fm] a break.
I'm trying to [E] make it in the music business, and the record industry, it's tough.
You have one plus, one extra plus, you [A] can sing. _
With that boost of confidence, Tori tossed the pink dress and took off for L.A.
But [Am] things weren't easy.
Just to [C] pay the rent, this starving artist had to [D] muster up passion for breakfast [G] cereal.
_ _ Is it really that good?
_ [G] Kellogg's Just Right. _
_ She's lying, Ben.
It didn't take long for Tori to go from cereal lover to cereal killer.
Mrs.
Markham, who did the police say they had arrested for the murder [D] of your husband?
_ _ _ Her. _
[C] Carrie Hadler.
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Okay, so we exaggerated a bit.
[Eb] But Tori did get into some [Db] hot water on the show Trial by Jury.
Were you aware that your husband's body was found in Carrie Hadler's bedroom without pants on?
_ [C] Yes.
_ _ Did Tori beat [Eb] the rat? _
[Db] On the charge of first degree murder, the jury finds Carrie Hadler [Bm] not [F] guilty. _
_ [C] She got off [Eb] that time, but not in this [Db] early video.
Somebody just broke into my car and took my [Gb] stuff. _
_ I'm sorry, ma'am, I'm [F] writing you a ticket.
You are illegally parked.
The _ big, big jack_
It's Tori with her first band, Why Can't Tori Read?
And that parking violation [Bbm] wasn't the only offense she committed.
[F] _ People's exhibit one, the hair.
People's exhibit two, the swart.
Tori [G] finally had a big time record deal, but she [F] was guilty of 80s music and the first degree.
She has struggled very, very [Bb] hard to get from there to where she is today.
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